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The Erosion of Ownership | 10 Years Ago This Month
Reports of always-online next-gen systems and on-disc DLC raised questions about what consumers are actually getting when they buy a game
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Mass Effect 3's ending blows up | 10 Years Ago This Month
Fans disappointed by RPG's ending vow to Retake Mass Effect, BioWare lets them have it
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Crowdfunding becomes the gold rush du jour | 10 Years Ago This Month
Double Fine kicks off a revolution, PlayStation Vita hits shelves, and we discover the Crystal Ball Society
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The ESA's SOPA Opera | 10 Years Ago This Month
The industry was divided on a contentious piece of US legislation, clones got bemoaned, and consoles were (as usual) completely doomed
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BioWare plays the name game | 10 Years Ago This Month
EA tries to get the most out of the beloved studio behind… Command & Conquer?
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GameStop's head in the clouds | 10 Years Ago This Month
The retailer knew digital distribution was an existential threat and laid out its plan to get ahead of the problem
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Indie tides start turning | 10 Years Ago This Month
Microsoft leaves the door open for Sony to take command in the evolving indie space and mobile free-to-play cements itself as a wedge issue among developers
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The future was free-to-play | 10 Years Ago This Month
A guest editorial from Sony Online Entertainment's John Smedley holds up surprisingly well, while other predictions of the era... don't.
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R.I.P. single-player games and dedicated handhelds | 10 Years Ago This Month
Sony's big names offer flawed visions of the future while everyone else declares portables a victim of tablets
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"Crunch is a relic of the 20th Century" | 10 Years Ago This Month
Predictions that live service games would solve the industry's problem with overwork were perhaps too optimistic
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An E3 to forget | 10 Years Ago This Month
Wii U, PlayStation Vita, and Kinect's big push for core gamers made for an interesting -- but very, very doomed -- lineup at gaming's biggest showcase
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Mojang prepares for life after Minecraft | 10 Years Ago This Month
An interview with Mojang's first employee offers insight on a block-building phenomenon in the works while Ubisoft tries to go Hollywood (again)
Opinion
PlayStation Network's 24 days of downtime | 10 Years Ago This Month
Sony's 2011 hack was covered as one of the biggest security breaches of all time, but how significant was it in the long run?
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Gaming copes with mobile/social anxiety | 10 Years Ago This Month
An era of exceptional upheaval has people in every corner of the industry on edge heading into GDC 2011
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All game development is unsustainable | 10 Years Ago This Month
Big names tell developers that they're probably fine, as long as they're not making small, medium, or large games
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Handheld hardships | 10 Years Ago This Month
Optimism abounded around Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's Next Generation Portable in early 2011
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Was Activision Blizzard right to ignore mobile? | 10 Years Ago This Month
The publisher had to play catch-up after dismissing the mobile market in 2010, but that may have been its best course forward
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Game developers have too much job security | 10 Years Ago This Month
Keiji Inafune identifies the root of Japanese publishers' collective slump as the Kinect hits shelves
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The thing about trolls is they regenerate | 10 Years Ago This Month
It's time to tell the scary story of Edge Games, Tim Langdell, and the trademark dispute that would not die
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Duke Nukem throws a spanner in the Gearbox | 10 Years Ago This Month
Borderlands studio revives Duke Nukem Forever, dooming itself to a decade (and counting) of legal battles
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Activision: No Woman, No Try | 10 Years Ago This Month
A decade after being called out for a lack of female protagonists in its games, has Activision's track record actually gotten worse?
Opinion
PR danger closer than it may appear | 10 Years Ago This Month
EA's Medal of Honor studio honors the troops by letting people play as the Taliban amidst a good month for bad calls
Opinion
E3 gets moving with Kinect, PS Move | 10 Years Ago This Month
The annual hype train goes off the rails as Microsoft and Sony jump on Nintendo's motion control bandwagon
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GameStop trades in its future for insultingly low amount
10 Years Ago This Month: Used games retailer endorses EA's Project $10 anti-used game initiative, sees little in return
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Next big thing or next big bubble?
10 Years Ago This Month: Streaming, motion controls, and stereoscopic 3D were all pushed as transformative technologies